Defence

2026-08-28

The UK governments of all stripes have been supporting (some might say stoking) the war in Ukraine for many years. Boris even went to the Ukraine, apparently to scupper the early peace talks  with Russia.

Moscow is "hinting" that Russia is about to call their bluff.

"Zakharova urged "all residents of the United Kingdom to think about the inevitable, catastrophic consequences of the hostile steps taken by their own authorities"

Should we be worried?

2026-08-27

Are the Storm Shadow chickens about to come home to roost?

The only mystery is why Russia has been so restrained in its response to the UK's seemingly never-ending supply of missiles to Ukraine for launching at Russia.

We have noted the UK's determination to provoke Russia previously. Scott Ritter even publicly described Zelenskyy as a British agent! And who can forget the abrupt termination of seemingly productive Ukraine-Russia negotiations immediately following Boris Johnson's visit to Kiev?

Will our leaders now get the message that they are playing with fire? Or do they want war with Russia, no doubt on the pretext that they have made an unprovoked attack on our entirely peaceable UK munitions factories...

Or might the Kremlin decide that the real enemy is deeply entrenched in London,

2026-08-27

Brendon O'Connell is nothing if not fiercely independent.

I don't think he agrees with anybody, but he isn't following anybody else's line. So he brings something independent along with him (as far as anybody can tell these days anyway) so he is worth listening to, if you can follow his eclectic mix of AI produced video and his habit of hopping from one argument to another without much of a warning.

Still, he's good training for the independent viewer, with a style very different form almost everyone else. 

Make of him what you will.

2026-08-26

David Starkey, genuine National Treasure (being one of the very few still breathing who understands the British Constitution and how we got here) holds forth at the Institute of Economic Affairs (no it's not something out of "Yes Minister") on where it all went wrong.

Plenty of food for thought here, including the clear (but unstated) idea that words are indeed spells. Well, if they act like spells, then they are indistinguishable from spells, especially when they come freighted with an assumed meaning that actually isn't appropriate to the particular usage...

Maybe we should insist that all politicians should wear a conical hat to remind us.

But judges don't get a free pass either:

"... although you pay obeysance to the idea of democracy, it's too dangerous to allow it to work without controls... instead you have this marvellous thing, 'liberal democracy', which means.... democracy that is limited by

2026-08-24

With conflicting signals about what's actually going on beneath the abundant surface noise, making sense of who is on which side and which side is in the ascendant, even how many sides there actually are, is what one might consider an inexact science.

Nevertheless the parallels between the Day the Earth Stood Still and today's mood of expectant hiatus are pronounced.

Well-connected and experienced as he may be, Ben Fulford is probably no more able to foretell the future than anybody else, but he possibly is better informed than most.

Once again this week's offering is substantially pre-written, and serves to remind us how the world came into our current predicament. Perhaps it also offers pointers to the future...

(Modest

2026-08-24

Economies run on diesel, so it's no great surprise to be told that there is a crisis in the supplies of diesel fuel.

Oh, and Trump is claiming the Strait of Hormuz as American territory, but I don't doubt that the war of words isn't over yet by a long way.

ZeroHedge reports.

2026-08-23

Secretary Bessent is making the running - if you want to know how this ends, follow the money...

"... you can't rig everything all at once... "

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2026-08-20

We are talking child temperament, not horses.

The one that flies off the handle, the other that takes life in its stride, no fuss.

Is it really ADHD etc?

"... chlorinated drinking water strips iodine from the thyroid. So does excess sodium chloride.... Fluorine sits at the top of the displacement hierarchy, a stronger iodine-stripper than chlorine, and now enters daily consumption through both municipal water and toothpaste"

And what to do about it?

2026-08-19

It's been a while since I posted about China, so here is the latest update....

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2026-08-18

Katherine Birbalsingh tells it like it is.

Education is no longer what it was, nor is it what it needs to be.

The triumph of centralised government whose immense hubris incompetence and overreach have given us the self-inflating EU, our unchecked perfidious parliament, our unaccountable state institutions, our calamitous "health service" (still on its eternal quest for the cure for cancer provided that it's from Big Pharma), endless foreign wars, and now the invasion of our own shores by theunlimiteddispossessed of foreign lands where our armies and air forces have wreaked havoc in their quest for those elusive weapons of mass destruction (and the consolidation of the reach of the central bankers)...

It's time for change, but change on our terms, not theirs.

There is much to be done, and education must be a central part of the new,

2026-08-14

The Professor of Mischief strikes again, this time with an AI tool to analyse your scope for making the wrong decision by AI...

No doubt it could come in useful in all sorts of arenas, and just maybe it's a tool that should be automatically embedded within any AI-based system worth its salt to keep it within bounds. In a world of potentially rogue AIs, that could be a prerequisite!

Whether it would be feasible may be arguable of course, but perhaps it could form a basis for establishing whether a system based upon an AI could be regarded as fit for purpose. In a world of rapidly developing governmental and commercial systems so based, I'd say it's a no-brainer.

Would you fly with this AI?

2026-08-12

Or open warfare?

Andrew Bridgen, Brig Gen Blaine Holt review the entrails of global and ancient Albion's national order for Rich Does Politics.

Would you get against any of this?

NB: These are not predictions, they are speculations...

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2026-08-10

With no serious events happening (at least publicly) today's report is a largely pre-written placeholder, reviewing Ben's involvement in the journalism of international secret societies and how we and he got here.

In a slow cycle race the last one to cross the finish line wins - thus they are extended affairs with much wobbling and self-control and "are we nearly there yet?" moments from bored kids - perhaps an apt metaphor for today's summer doldrums.

It's all good fascinating material which is sure to present stuff that we didn't know, including his involvement with the White Dragon Society. 

Sadly he never gets around to explaining why there are so many societies sporting a "dragon" nomenclature, but with "dragon" references worldwide it's clear that dragons must have been a real feature of prehistorical ubiquity.

2026-08-09

We've been around this loop before, somewhat inconclusively it should be mentioned.

The latest update from Promethean Action reviews the latest attempt by Trump to bring the American Revolt to a satisfactory conclusion by incorporating Canadian provinces into the independent united states of america.

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2026-08-06

This is one for the bibliophiles amongst us.

If the cap fits...    maybe we should wear it?

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And now for an illustration of exactly how the 'miry clay' are being deceived by the 'iron'.

2026-08-06

Prof Mearsheimer reviews the war and what has been achieved. Or not.

For those who believe that the war actually matters (and how could it not?) this is an instructive video.

But bear in mind that the real war also involves finances, geopolitical alliances, and tactical geopolitics including superpower politics....

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Plus a (seriously mistitled!) view

2026-08-05

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2026-08-05

Alex Krainer reviews the global trade and power plays that have beset the world over recent centuries, helping us to understand how we came to find ourselves in our current situation.

"Free trade is a race to the bottom. The national system is the path to sovereignty and prosperity"

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2026-08-04

Our friend Sebastian reports on the latest situation regarding the Ukrainian leadership - and for once, there is a lot of sense in what Mr Zaluzhnyi (former military commander, now Ukraine's ambassador to the UK) brings to the table.

Maybe the mood music is becoming more realistic? Time will tell...

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2026-08-04

Yes, the times they are a-changing!

One might think from the results that with leaders like Trump, who needs enemies?

Or is there method to his madness? Maybe we are about to find out...

 ....  and certainly the past is beginning to feel like a foreign country, even before the future has really begun to reveal itself.

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